Where’s more atheist advertising when you need it. People always like to write-off atheists as loud-mouthed uptight folks who who can’t say anything contrary to… And, while that may be true, I think it is more true the other way around. Believers are the worst for stuff like that. Which is why I am both glad and surprised to see news stories like these…

First from KRQE regarding buses in London:

LONDON – At least 200 buses in London are sporting new advertisements that declare, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”

And then from American Humanist regarding holiday billboards in DC:

“Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake,” proclaims a new holiday ad from the American Humanist Association. Already appearing today in the New York Times and Washington Post, the message will soon be blazoned on the sides, taillights, and interiors of over 200 Washington DC Metro buses.

The first one is a bit too neutral for me, but I still think that’s it’s funny. The second one it a philosophy that I have shared for years. My old thought that is people (specifically heaven and hell concerned christians) and good out of fear from the afterlife, it doesn’t mean that they are good people, they are just refraining from acting bad. It seems like the emphasis should actually be one being a good and well-meaning person. But then I guess that violates the core of the christian belief, that people are actually bad and need to be threatened to stay in line… A philosophy that I think does more bad then good.